Nelson D. Schwartz

Nelson D. Schwartz has covered the economy and economics for the business section of The New York Times since August 2012. He was the 2014 recipient of the Nathaniel Nash Award, given annually by The Times to honor “a correspondent, reporter or columnist who excels in business or economic news, nationally or abroad.”

Mr. Schwartz’s recent articles have included a look at the economics behind dead malls, an examination of how inequality is reordering the world of consumers and retailers amid economic pressure on the middle class, in addition to regular coverage of the latest data on unemployment and economic growth.

He is interested in the way broader economic shifts play out on a human level, as well as the changing landscape for manufacturing, employment and opportunity in the United States.

Before moving to the economics beat, Mr. Schwartz covered Wall Street, banking, and finance for two and a half years, and also served as European economics correspondent in Paris from 2008 to 2010. He joined The Times as a Sunday Business feature writer in June 2007.

From 1997 to 2007, Mr. Schwartz was a senior writer for Fortune, where he reported from New York and more than a dozen foreign countries, including Russia, Britain, Iraq, Libya, Kuwait, Argentina and Brazil. He received an honorable mention from the Overseas Press Club in 2006 for his interview with Hugo Chávez and his portrait of Venezuela’s oil industry in Fortune.

He began his career in the Washington bureau of The Baltimore Sun, and also worked for Smart Money magazine in New York covering personal finance. A keen bird watcher, he has made time for bird watching during reporting trips in Iraq and Kuwait, as well as South America.

A 1995 graduate of the University of Chicago, where he studied Russian and American history, Mr. Schwartz grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y. He lives with his family on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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